Button Bands & Buttonholes

Live life on the edge with designer and lifelong knitter Anne Hanson as she teaches you how to incorporate beautiful finishes on your hand-knit garments.

Skill Level

Intermediate

What You Get

8 Streaming HD video lessons with anytime, anywhere access

Downloadable class materials

Hours of close-up instruction

Answers to student questions from instructor Anne Hanson

Closed captioning available (web only)

How it works

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Class Overview

Writer and designer Anne Hanson will give you the hole truth as she teaches you everything you need to know about this finishing technique in Button Bands and Buttonholes. Learn to create smooth edges from which to knit your button bands. Calculate the perfect ratio, based on your design and gauge, to pick up across rows, stitches or even on the diagonal. Learn techniques for precise bind-offs and perfectly spaced button placement. Anne shares her deep knowledge and passion for choosing the right button for each garment. She will keep you from hitting the panic button as she troubleshoots common problems that may crop up. Create eyelets, two-row and one-row buttonholes  and learn which to use for your garment and button. Finally, learn to knit incorporated buttonholes and button bands right into the fabric of a sweater.

Let Anne be your ace in the hole; sign up for Button Bands and Buttonholes today!

What You'll Learn

* How to establish smooth edges to facilitate pickup when creating your button band

* How to calculate the pickup ratio for your bands, based on the design and your gauge

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Taught by

Anne Hanson

Instructor

Anne Hanson is a lifelong knitter and the owner of Knitspot, a popular blog where she teaches and writes about knitting, spinning and design. Anne has been featured in respected magazines such as Knitty, The Knitter, Twist Collective, Sock Club and Brave New Knits. Currently she works in Ohio, where she dreamed up the popular indie yarn company, Bare Naked Wools.